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WASHINGTON — North Dakota's Democratic senator has introduced a bill in Congress to restore consumers' ability to purchase over-the-counter medication with pre-tax dollars without first obtaining a physician's prescription. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, along with Sen.

CADY, Wis. -- A Cottage Grove, Minn., man survived a single­ engine airplane crash on Sunday in far western Wisconsin. Douglas Vetter, the 20-­year­-old pilot of a plane flying from Appleton, Wis., to a Minnesota destination, safely guided his plane to a crash landing in the town of Cady. Scott Knutson, chief deputy for the St. Croix County Sheriff's Office, said local authorities were alerted to a plane losing power at 3:17 p.m. as it approached Boyceville.

BISMARCK — Airplane boardings at three major cities in North Dakota are slightly down from February of last year, but remain up overall in the state so far from last year. Dickinson ended February with 3,386 boardings, down more than 300, or 9 percent, from last year at this time, according to a North Dakota Aeronautics Commission report released on Wednesday. Year to date boardings are also down by 2.1 percent. Fargo had 37,690 passengers in February, down 3 percent from last year.